OPEN-COLLAR WORKPLACES
How women are forsaking male models of business, and revolutionizing new and more satisfying ways to work.
- Women own more than 26% of the nation’s 20.8 million companies, generating nearly $2.3 trillion in revenue.
- Companies with a higher representation of women in senior management positions financially outperform companies with proportionally fewer women at the top.
- Both men and women would rather work for a woman if their firm were being downsized, believing that their interests would be better protected.
- Women are the largest and fastest growing group of small farm buyers, and they’re quickly becoming the majority of farm owners.
- Women are just as interested in achieving the top slot—CEO—as men. Furthermore, women with children in the home were just as likely to aspire to the top as those who had no children
- A quarter of women believe the biggest reason for few women in top positions is the inflexibility that management roles provide for women with families.
- 40% of all business travelers are women.
- Women make up 51% of enrollment at Columbia and Yale law schools, and 46% of enrollment at Harvard Law. However, that equality doesn’t translate to the career success of making partner. Women account for only 16% of partners at American law firms.
- The majority of students at law schools, dental schools, and veterinary schools are now women, and by 2005 women will comprise the majority of the nation’s veterinarians. Women are enlisting in the military in higher numbers, currently comprising 15% of enlistment
- From 1997 to 2002 the number of construction firms owned by women grew by 35.5%.
- An AARP survey found that 80% of baby boomers planned to work in retirement.
